- Clips appear in the teaser for the next episode.
- The movie clip is shown.
"WatchMojo" Top 10 Anti-Climactic Movie Endings (TV Episode 2016)
The ending of The Ninth Gate gets an honorable mention."Nostalgia Critic" Can an Ending Ruin a Film? (TV Episode 2016)
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Spider-Man (2002)
Two characters on the Oscorp board are named "Balkan" and "Fargas" who were book collectors in this Roman Polanski film."Masters of Horror" John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns (TV Episode 2005)
"Cigarette Burns" has an almost identical plot, only with the search for a rare book changed to the search for a rare film print. The main characters of the investigator and the collector who hires him are strongly similiar to those in "The Ninth Gate".Francisco Maltes (Short 2008)
plotMicmacs (2009)
DVD is shown in a video store."The Cinema Snob" Elves (TV Episode 2011)
"I think he walked in on Johnny Depp rehearsing for The Ninth Gate."
M*A*S*H (1970)
Johnny Depp's whistle in the bookstore is the same as Hawkeye'sThe Godfather (1972)
oranges fall on floorFrenzy (1972)
Corso returns to visit the Baroness when the secretary is out at lunch, and then unwittingly becomes entangled with the murder. He then tries to dash off and on the way down bangs into the secretary who is returning from lunch. Seemed like a tribute or an inside joke by PolanskiChinatown (1974)
Earlier Polanski film; Fargas ('Ninth Gate') is murdered in the same manner as Hollis Mulwray from 'Chinatown', by being drowned in his garden pool; Boris Balkan ('Ninth Gate') is based on some aspects of 'Chinatown' villian Noah CrossBitter Moon (1992)
In Bitter Moon, Oscar (Peter Coyote) calls Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) "his little sorceress in white snickers". In "The Ninth Gate", Emmanuelle Seigner's character is exactly that. At some point she also plays with blood on he face in both films.
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